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Golden Domes And Hollow Promises— Tanks For Nuthin'
Trump & The Tech Bros Are Planning Our Future— It’s All Guns, No Butter Señor TACO ordered up some B-2s, F-22s and F-35s to fly over the...

Howie Klein
Jul 56 min read
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It's Harris's Race to Lose
But a win is not guaranteed. Here's what she should do.

Thomas Neuburger
Aug 27, 20246 min read
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If Biden Doesn't Get Tough With Netanyahu For Real, He'll Be Handing The White House Over To Trump
We’ve mostly concentrated on what a threat to American domestic affairs a Trump victory would be. In other countries, people look at the...

Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20245 min read
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The Senate Passed A Shameful, Bloated War Budget-- And Most Democrats Voted For It-- Not Bernie
Yesterday, the Senate passed it’s version of the war budget 86-11. Among the 11 votes against it were Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff...

Howie Klein
Jul 28, 20235 min read
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War Budget Is Here-- Will Ro Khanna Be The Only One To Stand Up To The Military Industrial Complex?
Happy 4th of July. Allow me to begin the day with a poem by a German who sought refuge from Hitler in our country, the great Bertold...

Howie Klein
Jul 4, 20238 min read
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No Matter How Many Billions Get Added To The Pentagon Budget, It's Never Enough
It couldn't have surprised anyone that on Monday the the Wall Street Journal was demanding that the U.S. radically increase the Pentagon...

Howie Klein
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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The Senate, Designed As An Anti-Democratic Institution Should Be An Honorific Debate Club
High Drug Prices Bloated War Budget Biden nominated Dr. Robert Califf as the head of the FDA. Califf, a total shill for Big PhRMA, was...

Howie Klein
Dec 15, 20212 min read
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The Disgraceful Pentagon Budget Passed Last Night-- Only 51 Dems Voted Against It
As expected, it passed the House late last night, 363-70, but maybe Pelosi and Hoyer don't want voters to be able to find how members...

Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20215 min read
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Good News! The War Department's Bloated, Wasteful Budget Failed Yesterday
Progressive senators Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Ed Markey and Ron Wyden were followed by every Republican but Susan Collins....

Howie Klein
Nov 30, 20216 min read
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After Afghanistan-- A Peace Dividend? You Must Be Joking
Who's To Blame? The U.S. finally withdrew from Afghanistan, the smoothest and most successful withdrawal from that country since... I...

Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20219 min read
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War-Mongering Against China Is A Big Thing Now
I have to admit I don't know an awful lot about academics Michael Beckley (Tufts) and Hal Brands (John Hopkins), but I do know that...

Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20219 min read
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It Takes Decency, Courage & Determination For Justice To Triumph-- Just Ask Lucas Kunce
I saw the Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, a decade ago but I watched it again last night. What a movie! Jamie Foxx was...

Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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A Better Way To Think About The 9/11 Anniversary
The Democratic controlled Congress-- like Republican controlled Congresses-- keeps increasing a war budget that needs to be slashed....

Howie Klein
Sep 11, 20217 min read
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House Conservatives Spend Like Drunken Sailors-- When It Comes To War Machine
Congress is on recess but Big Money isn't. The Military-Industrial-Complex (M-I-C) called a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee...

Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20217 min read
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Taliban 2.0-- No One Knows What To Expect-- But Forget About Lady Gaga Or Beyoncé Concerts
A little over 50 years ago, I spent a brutal winter in a tiny hamlet-- two families in two compounds-- in the Hindu Kush in northwest...

Howie Klein
Aug 29, 20215 min read
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Military Industrial Complex & Affiliates In The Media & Congress Insist On Reigniting Afghan War
The best thing Biden did since becoming president was something Bush, Obama and Trump were unable-- and unwilling-- to do because of...

Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20219 min read
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Wars Always Have Profiteers-- That's Why We Have Wars
An all too typical Military Industrial Complex contractor, Supreme Foodservice owned by crooks in the UAE and Switzerland, pleaded guilty...

Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20216 min read
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Afghanistan Notes
These are not nations.

Thomas Neuburger
Aug 19, 20217 min read
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Peace Dividend? Or More Billions Transferred To The Military Industrial Complex?
Reporting for Roll Call yesterday, Andrew Clevenger wrote that it isn't expected on Capitol Hill that the disastrous collapse in...

Howie Klein
Aug 18, 20215 min read
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Blue America-Endorsed Candidates ALL Oppose Perpetual Wars
I want to share the perspectives on Afghanistan by two Blue America-endorsed candidates-- one for Senate and one for House-- who have had...

Howie Klein
Aug 17, 20213 min read
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